# Date: 18 March 1904

V. I. LENIN — TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF "ISKRA"
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V. I. LENIN ON BEHALF OF THE DEPUTY FOREIGN
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CC — TO THE EDITORIAL
BOARD OF "ISKRA"
[18 March 1904. Geneva.]

[Respected] c[omrades]!

Probably by error in No. 61 of I[skra] it was printed that to Axelrod's address one should send not only letters, but also m o n e y for I[skra] and Z[aria].¹

[The public may understand] The public may understand this to mean that a special fund is being established for the publication of I[skra] and Z[aria], whereas in fact all funds for the publication of I[skra] and Z[aria] are drawn exclusively from the Central Party Fund, which is managed exclusively by the CC.

We request that this error be corrected as soon as possible.

Deputy Foreign Representative of the CC.

P.S. We earnestly request that you reply to this letter.*

¹ By means of a separate sheet dated 22 February (new style), which was enclosed in No. 59 of I[skra] from 10 February, a notice from the CC was published annulling its previous address for correspondence abroad (in the name of P. Axelrod) and replacing it with a new one (in the name of Lenin). In this notice it was specially emphasized that the CC from that moment "is responsible only for those letters" which will be directed to it at the new address. In No. 60 of I[skra] from 25 February 1904, in the section "Mailbox," the following notice from the editorial board was published: "Money and letters for 'Iskra,' 'Zaria,' and 'League of Russian Revolutionary Social-Democracy' we request be sent to the following address" (followed by P. Axelrod's address). Before the publication of No. 61 of I[skra], P. Lepeshinskii turned to the editorial board with a letter on behalf of the CC, asking it to make the following addition to the editorial notice: "all foreign correspondence — ordinary and monetary (including money for 'Iskra' and 'Zaria') — intended for the Central Committee of the party or for the party printing operation, must be sent exclusively to the address" (followed by Lenin's address). This demand was fulfilled by the editorial board only halfway: the required addition to the I[skra] editorial notice was made with the omission of...

* Printed from the draft. Ed.
** Next, in the handwriting of P. Lepeshinskii, is written the beginning of an unfinished sentence: "We consider it necessary to add"... Ed.